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Patrick deWitt Quotes

The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: 1975

Topics

Spark Affection Things Disappear

I'm too short to play basketball and too nervous to steal.

Melvin Van Peebles

Basketball Short Play Nervous Steal

I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.

Smokey Robinson

Planned Artists Been Songs Gospel

I own a fart CD. It has, I believe, over 100 fart sounds. A lovely variety, from the up-close and personal to the more experimental and dissonant. Some people prefer to listen to Bach when they go to sleep... not me.

Sleep People Me Believe Go Personal

Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation.

Family Time Vacation Tradition Seen

The more I think about the Olympics, even from afar, its mere concept stuns me. I can't think of any other line of work where, every four years, people gather to be ranked one, two, and three, then are more or less told to evaporate until the next go-around.

Work People Me Think Three Line

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

Time Words Mankind Most Saturated

I've been in scenes with my brother where I've been absolutely emotionally terrified to go somewhere. But because he's my brother, I feel safe.

Brother Feel Go Safe Somewhere Been

I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together and paid £4 for it in a junk shop. We collected owl pellets, ostrich eggs and sheep skulls for our natural history museum at home.

Deborah Moggach

Home History Together Sheep Museum

As a Catholic, I am proud of the social mission of the church and its concerns for the poor and dispossessed, but I still personally would support women priests.

Women I Am Support Proud Church

It is important that it - sometimes there are clashes between team-mates. We need each other to tell the truth, and this is not always a positive.

Positive Truth Important Sometimes

If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.

Time Money You Honey Run Out

The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists' personal opinions or judgments be left out of factual reporting.

Ethics Opinions Personal Out Left

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